What is your second language?

My Spanish is probably fair, French probably poor and a smattering of Portuguese.

I know a fair amount in Spanish and American Sign Language, but am no where near able to converse.

I don't speak other languages fluently. However, I do know a few words in Spanish.

French

Latin, sort of.

Perl

I like thinking of Latin as my second language, but knowing that there is no way that I can form a sentence that's any more complicated than 'My name is...' I would have to say that it's a tie between German and French. I generally understand German and although I don't know what word means what, I learnt how to get meaning by just listening and looking at the person. I know more French vocab but I am very bad at it. I constantly surrounded by it so I did pick up some stuff on my own.

English.

My second language is reading body language.

Being a canadian my second language would be french but Im not very good at it.

Does "teenager" count as a second language? I think that since they are generally from another planet that it would qualify.

I speak a little German, very little.

I can "speak" sign language well enough to get by in a conversation with a deaf person.
Everyone should know it.

I don't really have a second language as such - I can speak enough French to get by, and enough German to survive, but not to the level that I'd call fluent.

deciphering what my kiddo says/said when he was younger

i would think so!

Cat. I can tell which of my cats is "talking" even from another room, whether it's just a meow, a fight, or a distress call.

One of my cats must understand English somewhat. I can be upstairs and yell "Bandit, it's time for bed" and within seconds he'll come flying up the stairs onto the bed.

yeah. I got a new barbeque grille a few weeks ago. My younger son came over, looked at it and called it a "faggy, fatboy grille". I didn't know if that was good or bad.

My cat Hamilton is the only one allowed to come to work with me.. the others cause trouble or talk too much..

Whenever I'm headed to the office, I yell "Hamilton, are you coming to work?" and she shoots past me into my office.

I assume you work at home

of course

One of my favorite things about it is to be able to pet my kitty when I'm stressed out.. It relaxes me.

Hmmm, not sure ck, but I don't think that was a good thing....but my attitude is, wait until he gets something that he would like to show off...

French, which I've forgottten most of, so I'm tres sucky at it.

French

Pig Latin! Well, I took a few years of spanish, know enough to get by in some situations. "El gato esta en la refrigadora. El gato es muy frio!" and "Yo no hablo espanol muy bien yo nessito mucho trabje en mi espanol para yo fallado clase de espanol dos."
Note: I know the 2nd saying any many grammatical errors. But it gets my point across :D

English I guess.

Actually, when he said it I didn't know, but he explained that it meant it was a good thing.

really? a good thing? I guess it is like saying something is "doging". I guess as a teen, my slang (if you could call it that) was just as difficult for them to understand as the new generation's is to me.

I guess 'teen' language is always changing. I have to ask for clarification all the time. Actually, he's not a teen, he's 33. I think much of his language comes from the gangsta talk of the blacks. Everything is 'drama', 'comedy', 'tight', 'fatboy', etc.

and he still talks like this at 33? Usually that kind of stuff stops at about 30 doesn't it?

Not necessarily. His older brother talks like that too. It depends who they're with. They usually talk 'adult' with me or other older adults, but listening to the two of them talk to each other, etc. it's still foreign language.
And, it's not just them either. I work with guys in late 20's, early 30's at 2nd job, they all talk different too.

Hmmm, I guess I'm in for a long ride with my two kids.... I'm signing up for Foreign Language 101!

"Ethan"

I speak English. Why do I need a second language?

How about 'Labrador'?

I don't have one.

I was taught Welsh in school for years but as my area wasn't a Welsh speaking area I never got the chance to use it in real situations so I've forgotton it all.

Music, at the moment Mendelssohn & Prokofiev - so love playing M's C'o in E minor', Op.64

I don't have one. I just know a few things in Spanish, Japanese, and Tagolog.

I always thought that if they want ANYONE to speak those Gaelic languages, they really ought to reform the spelling and pronounciation.

But that's part of what makes it so cool. If it had become modernized, succinct, and prolific though, it would have a profound impact on international poetic grammatical construction. Geilic has far more liberty in sentence construction, not locked into subject-verb-object pattern like most languages.

Gibberish

Latin, when it comes to poetry, is way too liberal, too. They just jumble up the words randomly (well, the verb comes at the end, but that's where rules end).

But yes, I agree, the weird spelling does make it cool, it's just that it's really hard to learn.

It's only too liberal if it can't be understood. In gaelic words are formed differently to indicate whethar they are subject or object. Anything that's obvious may be left out.

German

French

But only speak very little

I wouldn't say I have one, since there's no other language I speak fluently or regularly. The second language I learned was French, though.

What about Hebrew or Greek? Any Sanscrit?

My Hebrew's pretty good, but it's more the biblical than the modern spoken. You can't really fluently speak biblical Hebrew--it's not a spoken language anymore. Plus, it's really my third language, since I learned a lot of French before I learned any Hebrew. I know very little Greek, and no Sanskrit.

I probably know much more sanscrit than hebrew, though I know the hebrew alphabet in metaphysical depth, and only french well enough to communicate somewhat in.

Isn't biblical Hebrew called Aramaic?

No, Aramaic is a different language altogether, although it is fairly closely related to Hebrew. There is a small amount of Aramaic in the Bible, and it was the language spoken in the later biblical period.

French

Japanese.

I don't have one.

persian or farsi

I don't have one. Not anything that I'm vaguely approaching fluent in.

I don't really have one, although I do speak some of both Spanish and French (badly)

Spanish